Beautiful drawing that Mike Rohde (the illustrator who also did REWORK) did for my RailsConf keynote. He even wrote up a little story about how it was made.
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Seen by David on May 24 2011. There are 9 comments.
Mike Rohde 25 May 11
Thanks David! I had a great time creating this illustration for you. I appreciate the opportunity.
EH 25 May 11
LOL . Who’s driving the space-car?
Appeos 25 May 11
I like the illustration, although it reminds me a lot of The Matrix ;-)
Rick 25 May 11
Mike is an INCREDIBLE artist. I enjoy sitting behind him at conferences and watching him draw.
He’s also a nice guy.
And from Milwaukee.
Triple A+
Mike 25 May 11
I still have one lingering question about sprockets in the new rails: It preprocesses all of the javascript source and generates one file. On the site I am working on, we have lots of different pages that have their own javascript subsets; we wouldn’t want all that code in one huge file on every page. Also, does it preprocess like haml and sass does now with no input required; we don’t use Compass and the file change observers because we don’t really want yet another daemon running. Ok, that was two questions…
Mike Rohde 25 May 11
EH – The spaceship has a mirror-finish glass bubble so you can’t see the driver but he can see you. :-)
Appeos – Hello Mr. Anderson!
Rick – Thanks buddy!
Mike 26 May 11
Watching the video answered the question about preprocessing, but it still isn’t really clear what gets published to the public folder from the asset pipeline… one big js file with all your assets in it?
And you should have included haml in the defaults. Only makes sense if you are including coffeescript and sass.
DHH 26 May 11
Mike, you can use one bundle per-page, if you please. Fully supported. It uses mtime to check if the file changed in dev mode, no daemon needed.
Also, I address haml in he video as well. (tl;dr, don’t like the look’n’feel of it, so it’s not going to be a default).
Mike 26 May 11
Awesome, DHH , thanks, that elevates the usefulness by a huge factor. I’m looking forward to trying it out.
Though I, and Im sure many others, don’t agree about haml being aesthetically any different than sass and coffeescript and coffescript sure is harder for a newbie to learn as a default, but I suppose it doesnt matter that much in the end. It’s your toy and you can do what you want with it based on any arbitrary decisions you might feel like making and we’ll all be mostly happy to play along. At least you’ve made it easy to change these ‘sensible defaults’. :P
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